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by PIB Delhi
Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Science & Technology; Minister of State (Independent Charge) Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today said that Chandrayaan-3 is scheduled for launch in August 2022.
In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha yesterday, Dr Jitendra Singh said, based on the learnings from Chandrayaan-2 and suggestions made by the national level experts, the realization of Chandrayaan-3 is in progress. Many related hardware and their special tests are successfully completed and the Launch is scheduled for August 2022.
The Minister informed that the number of missions planned during 2022 (Jan to Dec’22) are 19 viz., 08 Launch Vehicle Missions, 07 Spacecraft Missions and 04 Technology Demonstrator Missions.
Several ongoing missions were impacted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, reprioritization of projects has taken place in the back drop of Space Sector reforms and newly introduced demand driven models. The following missions were realized in last 3 years.
List of Satellites launched in last 3 years’ time frameSatellite Name Launch Date EOS-03 Aug 12, 2021 Amazonia-1 Feb 28, 2021 Satish Dhawan SAT (SDSAT) Feb 28, 2021 UNITYsat Feb 28, 2021 CMS-01 Dec 17, 2020 EOS-01 Nov 07, 2020 GSAT-30 Jan 17, 2020 RISAT-2BR1 Dec 11, 2019 Cartosat-3 Nov 27, 2019 Chandrayaan-2 Jul 22, 2019 RISAT-2B May 22, 2019 EMISAT Apr 01, 2019 GSAT-31 Feb 06, 2019 Microsat-R Jan 24, 2019 Kalamsat-V2 Jan 24, 2019
